and while here also only build when the "make check" target is used;
since we already require --with-gtest maybe this step is not of much
interest.

reported by Francis on bind10-dev.  looks okay, directly pushing.

doesn't seem to work in a templated test for this compiler.
okayed on jabber.

These are just tests and logging messages.

[master] (re)fixed the recent solaris build issue without relying on reinterpret_cast.  okayed on jabber.

As it would not be safe anyway.

simply a forgotten cast, reviewed on jabber

If it corresponds to the updater. This would be a bug, but we better
detect it sooner.

Because datasource could represent something bigger behind the scenes.

purposes

whether IPv6 is enabled or not

 - exclude the setup of handler in SIGALRM and add it as an external
   function in the SignalHandler class in test_utils.py

 - define the function in that class to reset the handler in
   test_utils.py, and add it in tearDown() in each testcase

 - explicitly shut down the socket of the msgq before shutting down
   the msgq

 - do nothing in the shutdown method of MockMsgq for avoiding shutting
   down the msgq twice

 - replace the stop method in the shutdown method of the MyStatsHttpd
   with the shutdown command of stats_httpd